As poetry fans flocked to watch the 2009 Jane Campion movie Bright Star, Culture24 developed this UK-wide guide to the real life John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Why not follow the poet's footsteps round London and beyond?

A rare surviving church painting from the medieval period, conserved by the Fitzwilliam Museum after arriving covered in dirt, varnish and faeces, could have listed the ten commandments on its reverse.

A set of incredibly beautiful coffins owned by a priest in Ancient Egypt have gone on display in a new exhibition in Cambridge called Death on the Nile, alongside loans from the British Museum and the Louvre.

Painter and sculptor Maggi Hambling sets out to do for her local coastline what John Constable did for the Suffolk skies. Melanie Abrams checks out her latest show and talks to the artist about her visceral waves.

An intervention by author and ceramicist Edmund de Waal kicks off the Fitzwilliam Museum's winter programme, followed in December by the first retrospective of John Craxton, one of the great British artists of the 20th century.